YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS : Industrialisation: will govt end toy imports?

In My Book of Things, it’s never too late to take a bite or two at a mouth-watering cherry – especially one that’s invitingly dangled before one’s eyes! But, this time round, the cherry I have in mind isn’t the plum-like fruit of the ‘Prunus’ genus that’s so beloved of folk in ‘developed’ countries...

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Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Nov

YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS : Study shows there’s good business in human waste!

Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Dec

YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS: Retiring from Tanzania’s presidency is good business

Seemingly for the umpteenth time, Tanzania’s major partners-in-development have come out in lavish praise for what they described as peaceful, stable transition from one govt to another.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Nov

Industrialisation drive cuts TZ imports from Kenya

Tanzania’s industrialization programme is sending shock waves to its major trading partners who have been witnessing a fall in their exports to East Africa’s second largest economy.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Apr

CA needs to end the circus and get down to business

Since the start of the Constituent Assembly (CA) sitting in February, it is difficult for anyone who has been following proceedings in Dodoma to understand what is really going on.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Jan

YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS: PAC adds impetus to tax waivers review tempo

>The Tanzania Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is pushing for auditing existing tax exemptions in Tanzania to determine their merit or otherwise. [See ‘PAC calls for audit of all tax exemptions,’ Daily News: Jan. 14, 2015].

 

11 years ago

Dewji Blog

03 Jul

World Business Leaders Gather in Nigeria for Bayelsa Investment and Business Forum

The Bayelsa State Government of Nigeria (http://www.bayelsa.gov.ng) says it has concluded arrangements to host global business leaders between 16th and 18th July, 2014, at its maiden investment and economic forum with the theme ‘Unlocking Bayelsa State’s Economic Potentials’.

Disclosing this at a press briefing in Lagos, the State Commissioner of Trade, Industry and Investment, Barrister Kemela Okara said the Forum was in line with the present administration’s economic blueprint of a...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Sep

YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS : Heed experts’ advice on ‘economic’ monsters

One of my favourite columnists in our East African region in this day and age is a professor of Economics at the Dar es Salaam Campus of the Mzumbe University going by the name and style of Dr Honest Prosper Ngowi .

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Nov

YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS: Consumer prices sent wild during poll season

In all fairness, allow me, o’esteemed reader, to begin this palaver by congratulating former President Benjamin Mkapa on his 77th birthday anniversary today, November 12. Having got this off my chest without having to take off my shirt, allow me to proceed...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

26 Nov

YOUR BUSINESS IS OUR BUSINESS : ‘Tourists flood Z’bar after Oct 25 polls...?’ Come again!

Two recent Press reports prompted this palaver on the tourism business in general – and ‘Zanzibar Tourism’ in particular! One was on the global tourism promotion event staged in the UK recently under the auspices of the World Travel Market (WTM).

 

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